Baby in the Making by Elizabeth Bevarly

Author:Elizabeth Bevarly [Bevarly, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-11-12T23:00:00+00:00

Seven

Yeager was working in his office in the Flatiron Building, his tie loosened, the top two buttons of his dress shirt unfastened, when his assistant, Amira, texted him from her desk in End of the Earth’s reception area. She only did that when she was trying to be discreet about something. In this case, it was that there was a Hannah Robinson, who didn’t have an appointment, here to see him. Should she just show her the door the way she usually did with the women who came to see Yeager at the office without an appointment, or should she tell her to wait until he had a free moment, which would probably be in a couple of hours—maybe—and hope Hannah left on her own after sitting in the waiting room for a while?

Instead of texting back that she should do neither, Yeager headed out to the reception area himself and ignored Amira’s astonished expression when he got there.

Hannah was standing with her back to him, studying an enlarged photo of the Sinabung volcano on Sumatra that he’d taken five years ago. The first thing he noticed was that her clothes matched the photo, her shirt the same rich blue as the sky, her skirt printed in the same variegated yellows as the sulfur. The second thing he noticed was that she didn’t look pregnant.

He mentally slapped himself. Of course she didn’t look pregnant. She could only be a couple of weeks along, at most, since it had only been eleven days since he’d last seen her and twelve since he’d made love to her. But she must be pregnant. Otherwise, why would she have come to his office? If their first effort had failed, she could have just texted him to say, Sorry, see you next month.

“Hey,” he said by way of a greeting, his heart racing at the prospect of good news, way more than he expected it would in these circumstances.

She spun around, her gaze connecting immediately with his. That was when something cool and unpleasant settled in Yeager’s midsection. Because he could tell by the look on her face that she wasn’t pregnant.

“Come on back to my office,” he said. Then, to Amira, he added, “I’m unavailable for the rest of the morning. Maybe the afternoon, too.”

“Sure thing, Yeager,” Amira said, sounding even more shocked than she looked.

Hannah threw a soft but obviously manufactured smile at his assistant and murmured a quiet, “Thanks.” Then she crossed her arms over her midsection and followed him silently to his office.

He closed the door behind them and directed her to one of two leather chairs in front of his massive Victorian desk. His office, like the rest of Ends of the Earth, was cluttered with antique furniture and vintage maps and artifacts. A deliberate effort to replicate a time when world travel was full of intrigue and danger, attempted by only the most intrepid explorers. He pulled the second chair closer to Hannah’s and sat.

“It didn’t work, did it?” he asked.

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